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Angelia Vernon Menchan

Angelia Vernon Menchan is an author, publisher and public speaker who owns two publishing companies, MAMM Productions and Honorable Menchan Media. Mrs. Menchan is also a Budget Officer and former Job Corps Counselor. To date she has published twenty-three books of her own work, both fiction and non-fiction and more than eighty ebook novellas on amazon.com. You can access her bibliography on www.amazon.com search words: Angelia Vernon Menchan

Thursday, April 5, 2007

STRONG, BLACK WOMAN….Those are words that have inspired pride in me…Then caused me to cringe…Bringing tears to my eyes…I was raised by a platoon of SBWs…They were smart, money-earning…Handling their business…Raising good children Amazons…Everyone looked up to them…No one more than me…But one day around my teen years…I started seeing them differently…When I would catch them unawares…The looked tired…Lonely…A bit sad…I accepted my legacy…By age thirteen…I was on the planet Amazonia…Repping hard…Smart…Sassy…Sharp-tongued…Five feet ten…in stocking feet…Damn…ain’t that something….But I knew I was more than…Just another SBW…I got married first…amongst my friends…My girls were aghast…They wore me out with…You will never…finish your studies…You will just be…Some man’s wife…a baby machine...I didn’t listen to them…I did me…married that man I loved…Who loved me…loves me...But I defied them…Did the school thing…To death…Several careers…Good kids…But…I also got to be not strong…all the time…I got to wake up at night…Saying…“Baby I am thirsty…my back hurts…”Hearing him say…“Lay right there, I got you…let me get you some juice…while I rub your back…”Now that might not seem like a big deal…But damn is it real…It shores me up for those times…When a sister has to be fierce…Amazonian…a SBW…Aint nothing wrong with that…But there is a time…And a place for everything…Don’t be ashamed to sometimes be a different SBW…Sweet Black Woman…Sexy Black Woman…Satisfied Black Woman…It’s ALL GOOD…acVernon Menchan…angelia…